Celibacy is not the Problem Homosexuality and Pedophilia is.
If Celibacy were the problem ,normal straight priests would be having sex with heterosexual women not little boys.
The problem is that the word got out to pedophilic Homosexuals that the Priesthood was a target rich environment for them. The Church’s wrongful way they sent them away and hid them for a while and then brought them back, still in the priesthood was taken as primo facie evidence that the Church was allowing them to get away with it. As they were.
I know I will catch it from the flamers for this , but-——Bishops are picked from the Priesthood, and if you have pedophiles in the priesthood, there are probably a few Bishops who arent all that straight either.Perhaps this was a part of the problem of why these people were hidden.
But thanks to celibacy very few "normal" men...fewer and fewer,it would seem....choose the priesthood.Yes,homosexuality is part of the problem for if homosexuals didn't find their way into the priesthood over the last 50 years (or more) there'd be few priests around to *commit* abuse.
Allow men,in general,not just Eastern Rite priests and Episcopal converts,to be married and,at the very least,fewer homosexuals would *be* in the priesthood..ready to abuse.